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Lords:
* Styger
* JP
* http://vectorpoem.com/
Topics:
* Comestibles as fan fiction
* The most unexpected CD to be launched from the face of the Cenobite from Hellraiser 3 that launches CDs out of his face.
* https://cenobite.fandom.com/wiki/CD
* I got a mandolin slicer for Christmas from someone who was afraid to use it, and I am also afraid to use it.
* Ghostbusters, by Ray Parker Jr.
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe93CLbHjxQ
* Bustin'. https://youtu.be/0tdyUgW6WE
* You Could Stop at Five or Six Stores https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T1OHha9agg
* Jeffrey Tambor Is NOT the Guy From "Ghost" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVLWybFpwo
* JoJo: Trick with cigarettes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJwD8q-OXLQ
* Oldest food you've eaten. ie oldest substance or object you've consumed.
* https://youtu.be/Ga5JrN9DrVI
* Do pigeons love nacho cheese?
* Here's an alphabetical list of every move in every Mario game, from "1,000-Fold Arms – Paper Mario: The Origami King" to "Zero Laser – Super Smash Bros. Brawl."
* https://www.mariowiki.com/Listofspecial_moves
* A. How would you fix this list?
* B. Who wants to do a podcast series where we rank them all?
Microtopics:
* Attack the Block.
* Movies where a delineated area is involved in some kind of fight.
* Lord quality: trying to keep it high.
* Cooking dinner as a fusion of the cuisines of the two countries that you are about to watch play a sport.
* White game designers in the 70s deciding that there isn't anything spicier than paprika in this astonishing fantasy world.
* Doing some home cooking and inventing a new sandwich in the style of the McDonald's fish fillet.
* The $100 cheese steak.
* A chef getting famous by serving incredibly high end Big Macs to rich people.
* Each bottle of Tabasco tasting uniform even though they're all composed of peppers grown in many different countries.
* How to explain cenobites to Thomas Jefferson.
* A transporter accident aesthetic.
* Not liking the music in the club so you turn the DJ into a cenobite with a CD drive for a mouth.
* Supertramp's Breakfast in America.
* All known AOL installer CD-ROMs originating with the cenobite who launches CDs out of his face.
* A CD that was killed by Mountain Dew.
* The cenobite with a CD drive for a face launching Xenogears disc 3 at you.
* Xenogears disc 3 for Super Smash Bros.
* Sympathy for the developers of Xenogears and in fact of any video game.
* Novelty CD shapes.
* CD-ROMs cut to the size of business cards with your portfolio on them.
* Destroying a slot loading CD drive by putting a small or oddly shaped CD in it.
* Learning to trust yourself to be around sharp knives.
* Strapping a mandolin slicer to yourself like a keytar.
* A great spooky house under the freeway.
* A house made of neon tubing like the ghost ship at the end of Monkey Island.
* Telekinesing the furniture.
* Being haunted by ghosts that are clearly just a couple dudes in t-shirts.
* Getting a bunch of B-list celebrities to shout "Ghostbusters" and act scared.
* Getting movie footage for your music video by pointing a video camera at the movie screen.
* Finding synergies between disparate elements of pop culture.
* Bleh hands.
* Slimer with a dozen cocktail weenies in his craw.
* Reaching a compromise that will allow Ray Parker Jr. to haunt your home in peace.
* The Ghostbusters hiring spectral Ray Parker Jr. to haunt folks and drum up business.
* Vincent Schiavelli's filmography.
* A Ghostbusters/Columbo crossover episode.
* The trick where Chevy Chase eats a cigarette.
* Slimer always believing that he ate the whole thing.
* Food age.
* Eating extremely old cough drops.
* Not being able to tell if cough drops have gone bad because they always taste like that.
* Asking someone with a philosophy degree whether cough drops are a food.
* Accidentally taking enough philosophy classes to qualify for a degree and someone tracks you down to hand you your philosophy degree like a subpoena.
* Bog cheese.
* Whether anyone has successfully eaten millennia-old frozen mammoth meat or if it all turned into black goo.
* Several thousand year old tomb honey.
* Unboxing and eating military rations on video.
* Eating hardtack from the American civil war in 2016.
* Being extremely upbeat about rancid meat.
* How to tell if vacuum sealed food has botulism.
* Having the vocabulary to describe all the different ways food can go bad.
* Trying to buy civil war hardtack on eBay and bidding on a pile of rocks.
* The most pigeon-dense place you've lived.
* Taking incredible risks for a single cheeto.
* Whether nacho cheese is incredibly beautiful to a tetrachromat.
* Nacho cheese as a nest building materials.
* Global incidence of human tetrachromacy.
* Space photos recolored into the visible spectrum so humans can look at them.
* Pointing a spectroscope at nacho cheese to figure out what pigeons see.
* The world's tiniest superpower.
* How to grow up in America without having played a bunch of Mario games.
* List of soups.
* Sitting at your Wizard's Desk for too long and getting Wizard's Foot.
* Fan wikis taking the shape of fan patience.
* Begging the wiki editors to turn this list into a normalized database table.
* An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can jump.
* An exhaustive list of games in which Mario can't jump.
* Mario visiting San Francisco.
* The Golden Gate Bridge existing in the Mario multiverse.
* Japan fitting perfectly in the Super Mario Bros. 3 universe, because Japan is also a magical foreign land I've never visited.
* The alternate reality where Mario Odyssey depicted world tourism in a hyper-realistic fashion.
* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 as a fictionalized depiction of an Olympics that never happened.
* ESPN broadcasting CPU vs. CPU basketball matches in NBA 2K.
* Linking to a web site but not encouraging people to go there.